Dial-calendar



(No Model.)

J4 GUSSONS. DIAL CALENDAR. No. 580,818. Patented Apr. 13, 1897.

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JOI-IN CUSSONS, OF GLEN ALLEN, VIRGINIA.

DIAL-CALENDAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 580,818, dated April13, 1897. Application iiled November 12,1896. Serial No. 611,868. (Nomodel.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN CUssoNs, a citizen of the United States,residing at Glen Allen, in the county of Henrico and State of Virginia,have invented new and useful Improvements in Dial-Calendars, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to advertising dialcalendars which are designedto be economically manufactured, mailed in envelops', if desired, and byrenewal of a part serve as a perpetual calendar.

The chief object of my present invention is to improve and extend theusefulness and desirability of the calendar described and claimed inLetters Patent No. 313,996, issued to me March 17, 1885.

The invention also has for its object to provide novel and simple meanswhereby the eye is instantly directed or led to the particular day ofthe week and the date of the month through the medium of an eye directoror pointer, so disposed that its main body is concealed from View andone end portion is visible and is adapted to be placed in coincidencewith any one of the week-days, which are arranged in a segmental spaceoutside the periphery of a rotary disk bearing the dates of the month.

To accomplish this object, my invention consists in the features ofconstruction and in the combination or arrangement of parts hereinafterdescribed and claimed, reference being made to the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of a calendarembodying my present invention, and Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken onthe line 2 2, Fig. 1.

In order to enable those skilled in the art to make and use myinvention, I will now describe the same in detail, referring to thedrawings, wherein- The numeral 3 indicates the body of the calendar,which is preferably made of cardboard 0r paper, having an ornamentalborder 4 near its margin and subdivided at or near the center by atransverse line, as at 5. The cardboard body is constructed with anarc-shaped incision at a suitable distance above the line 5 to providean opening having an arc-shaped edge 6, and immediately below the line 5the cardboard body is provided with an eyelet 7, which constitutes apivot-pin for a rotary disk 8composed, preferably, of cardboard or paperand bearing the dates of the month from l to 31, inclusive, arranged inau annular or' circular row near the periphery of the disk. The mainportion of the disk 8 lies against the rear surface of the cardboardbody 3, and this disk is inserted through the arc-shaped incision insuch manner that a segment ofthe disk constantly lies in front of thecardboard body for disclosing or showing the dates of the month directlyabove the arc-shapededge 6. The cardboard body 3 is provided at a pointabove the periphery of the disk 8 with a segmental space, as at 9, whichis subdivided by radial lines 10 to create a plurality of spacescorresponding with the number of days in a week. The days of the weekare printed or otherwise produced in these spaces, commencing, forexample, with Sunday and ending with Saturday,

'the usual abbreviations being employed.

The upper end of the cardboard body is provided with an eyelet 12 forthe purpose of suspending the calendar from a nail or pin.

The central part of the cardboard body between the line 5 and thearc-shaped edge 6 is occupied by a calendar made in the form of a pad13, the superimposed leaves or sheets of which bear, in regular order ofsequence, the names of the months and the year, as well as the days ofthe week and the dates of the month. This pad is composed of thenecessary number of leaves or sheets, which are connected bya line ofstitching, as at 14, to

a back sheet, which is thicker or stronger and tougher than the leavesor sheets composing the body of the pad. The strong or tough back sheetis cemented to the front surface of the cardboard or paper body 3, andthe upper edge of the pad, as here shown, is curved or arc-shaped toharmonize with the arcshaped edge 6, formed by the incision in thecardboard body, through which the peripheral portion of the disk 8projects, so that a segmental part thereof always lies in` front of thecardboard body above the arc-shaped edge 6,While the main bodyportion ofthe disk is covered and concealed by the cardboard body.

The eyelet or pivot-pin 7 constitutes the pivot for an eye director orpointer 15,Which is superimposed upon the rear surface of the disk S andis mounted upon the eyelet or pivot 7, so as to swing thereupon in thearc of a'circle. The swinging motion of the eye director or pointer islimited by the divergent edges 16 and 17, formed by cuttingthe cardboardbody to enable a peripheral portion of the disk 8 to project through thearc-shaped incision and thus place the figures representing the dates ofthe month in view above the arcshaped edge 6. The eye director orpointer 15 is preferably composed of a flat strip of cardboard or paperwhich possesses sufficient rigidity or stiffness as will make itsufficiently durable and substantial for the purpose. The length-of thisstrip is such that the free or outer end portion will project slightlybeyond or past the periphery of the disk, and thus the free or outer endportion of the strip lies between the rear surface of the disk and thefront surface of the cardboard body above the arc-shaped incision,through which the disk is made to project. The strip of cardboard,paper, or other material composing the eye director or pointer 15 ispreferably of a color contrasting with the color of the disk 8 and thecolor of the letters used in formulating the names of the week-days, sothat when its free or outer end is coincident with a particullar day ofthe week such day of the week is made very conspicuous and the eye isinstantly directed or led thereto.

The days of the week on the pad leaves or sheets bear a fixed relationto the days of the Week placed on the cardboard body above the rotarydisk, and the dates of the month, which are arranged in parallel lineson the pad-sheets, bear such relation to the dates of the month on therotary disk that the pad not only serves as a calendar, but constitutesa guide for the instant adjustment of the rotary disk at the end of aweek or at the beginning of a week. For example, if the date of themonth is known, and it is, for instance, January 10, 1897, the frontsheet of the pad bearing the name of the month and the year Willinstantly show that the 10th is Sunday, after which the rotary disk canbe turned until the 10th7 date registers with Sunday of the week-daysappearing on the cardboard body above the disk. It will be obvious thatby this means all the parts to produce a desirable and efficientcalendar are placed in a very compact form or shape and the disk can bequickly adjusted to suit the conditions required of a weekly calendar.The relation of the pad-calendar relatively to the arcshaped edge 6 andthe segmental portion of the disk which is visible at the front of thecardboard body produces such a combination of parts that all contributeto the unitary result.

The pad-sheets can be successively torn or rem ov ed at the ends of themonths,and, finally,

when all the pad-sheets have been utilized it is possible to cement anew pad in position for another year, and the new pad will again serve,in combination with the rotary disk and the week-days above the disk, tosecure the desired result.

The eye director or pointer 15 is susceptible of being convenientlyadjusted or shifted from either the front or rear of the cardboard bodyfor the purpose of placing it in coincidence with or pointing to therequired day of the Week appearing above the rotary disk, whereby thedays of the Week can be marked off by a very conspicuous device which isdesirable and efficient in practicable use.

The space 18 on the cardboard body below the transverse line 5 isdesigned to contain any desired advertisement.

My present invention provides not only an attractive calendar, butsupplies an article which possesses permanent utility, and it unites ina very small. compact form a mechanical calendar which possesses manyadvantages.

The advertisement printed on the cardboard body cannot be detached andtherefore will not be torn off, as in some pad-calendars.

The construction and arrangement of the parts are such th at the eyedirector or pointer isremoved almost entirely from the front of thecalendar-body and is wholly concealed, except as to a comparativelysmall projecting end extending beyond or past the periphery of the diskS, which projecting end can be utilized to adjust or shift the same intocoincidence with any day of the Week.

A very conspicuous eye director or pointer is provided by making thesame from cardboard or paper of a red color, but I do not wish to beunderstood as confining myself to any particular color or material, asthe essential feature of this part of my invention resides in an eyedirector or pointer, of any suitable form or shape, mounted in rear ofthe dial and extending between the rear'surface thereof and a part ofthe front surface of the calendar body, so that the free or outer endportion of the director or pointer will serve two purposes-to Wit, toindicate the day of the Week on the cardboard body and the date of themonth on the disk.

Having thus described my invention, what l claim is- A calendar,consisting of a body having an incision. and the days of the Weekindicated thereupon above the incision, a disk pivoted at the rear ofthe body and having its peripheral portion bearing the dates of themonth and proj ccting partly through the incision in the body toregister with the days of the week,

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and an eye director or pointer Composed of a In testimony whereof I havehereunto set flat strip 'arranged upon the rear surface of rny hand inpresence of two subscribing Wit- Io the disk, extending through theincision in nesses. the body and having its free or outer end 5projecting beyond or past the periphery of the disk to register with anyone of the Week- Witnesses: Y days on the body and the month-dates onthe ALBERT H. NORRIS, disk, substantially as described. l THOS. A.GREEN.

JOHN CUSSON S.

